Quote Originally Posted by bourbon View Post
What goes on inside Somalia may well make Torquemada blush for all I know; but the negligible reports of instances where torture employed by the pirates is notable. A few articles I’ve seen the pirates take offense to notion that they torture, or are terrorists – strictly business for these guys.
That is true - there was a a recent series of NPR about a pirate negotiator. See this and this. It's worth it to listen to the stories, especially the first one.